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bug#14303: 24.3; Bug in comment-search-backward

From: Leo Liu
Subject: bug#14303: 24.3; Bug in comment-search-backward
Date: Sat, 18 May 2013 06:51:31 +0800
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (OS X 10.8.3) 
On 2013-05-17 21:26 +0800, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> BTW, a useful idiom for such loops is the "empty body" while loop.
>
>       (while (and (re-search-backward comment-start-skip limit t)
>                   (progn
>                     (setq end (match-end 0))
>                     (and comment-use-syntax (nth 8 (syntax-ppss))))))

Yes, I use this occasionally too. Since we need to know if a comment
start is found I don't use it here.

Leo
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